Plan would tear down everything in Moana Park and start fresh

10:05 PM,
May 8, 2012

This is a 1997 file photograph of Moana Stadium.

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About five months after it took root, the city of Reno's effort to demolish and rebuild the now-shuttered Moana Stadium into two flat fields for sports like soccer is growing in ambition.

Today, the Reno City Council will get its first glimpse at a proposed master plan for the entire Moana Park, including the still-operational Jack Tighe Memorial Fields and Moana Pool, which closed in 2007.

The idea, given demolition work already happening along Moana Lane, is to tear down everything in Moana Park and raise enough money to rebuild the property into a recreation facility that would feature ...